Hello,
We are taking our 10 and 7 year old kids to visit Arches/Canyonlands/Mesa Verde National Parks July 15. We normally just use our phones for snapshots (our last camera, a Nikon Coolpix S8000 has been out of commission for some time). We are tentatively planning on using our phones for this trip - my husband has a iPhone 6 and believes that will suffice for this trip. We got pretty good pictures from our Disneyland trip using just our phones last year.
However, I am nervous that we will...

I have an old Nikon S8000 as a backup camera. It's been working OK until a couple of days ago when it stopped using the flash. I've tried various settings, but it doesn't pop-up the small built-in flash. I can't remember handling the camera differently than before.
Anyone knows what could have happened? I've thought about taking a sharp object and try to get the flash to pop-up, but I'm afraid it might hurt the mechanics.